Page 2 - Indian Missile Defence
US-India deal: Conclusion of BECA to open doors for high-tech arms
Becoming a BECA signatory will take India into a select group of long-range missile powers, which can strike targets thousands of kilometres away with an accuracy of 100 metres or less
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In pictures: 10 missiles that India has tested in the last two months
Naval version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was successfully test-fired yesterday from an indigenously built stealth destroyer. With this, India has now tested 10 missiles in last 2 months
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India successfully test fires anti-radiation missile 'Rudram-1'
The flight testing of the missile comes in the midst of India's bitter border row with China in eastern Ladakh.
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Indigenously developed surface-to-surface Prithvi-II missile test fired
India conducted a successful night testfire of its indigenously developed nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Prithvi-II missile as part of a user trial by the Army from a base in Odisha
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India to buy Harpoon missiles, lightweight torpedoes from US for $155 mn
While the Harpoon missiles will be manufactured by Boeing, the torpedoes would be supplied by Raytheon
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India needs to tighten up procurement processes of defence technology: US
The official acknowledged India's purchases of military hardware from Russia but underlined that the Trump administration was not seeking to punish a country with a long sustainment line
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India to test-fire 3,500-km range K-4 underwater nuclear missile from Vizag
K-4 is one of the two underwater missiles that are being developed. The other one is the over 700 kilometre strike range BO-5 missile
India to start exporting missiles to South East Asian, Gulf countries
India will export its first batch of missiles this year to the South East Asian and the Gulf countries after receiving "increasing interests" from them, a top defence official said here Wednesday. Speaking at the IMDEX Asia 2019 exhibition, Commodore S K Iyer, Chief General Manager for HR at BrahMos Aerospace, said the first missile export contract awaits a government to government approval. "A number of South East Asian countries are ready to buy our missiles," he said. "It will be our first export and we have received increasing interests in the missiles form the Gulf countries," Iyer said at the the three-day international maritime conference and exhibition which began here on Tuesday. Indian defence sector sees good opportunities for exports to the South East Asian and the Gulf countries where slower economic growths have put budgetary pressure on acquiring viable, cost-effective and reliable solutions. India-Russia joint venture BrahMos and defence company L&T Defence of ...
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Indigenous chopper-launched anti-tank missile 'Helina' test-fired in Odisha
All parameters of the flight test were monitored by the telemetry stations, tracking systems and the helicopters deployed by the Army
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Indian Navy to get more Israeli Barak 8 missiles in $630-mn deal with IAI
Last week, an IN ship successfully tested the Barak 8 long-range surface-to-air missile system
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In the war on ballistic missiles, India plods along
Even as it crosses another milestone in missile defence, analysts warn against excessive optimism
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